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<\/p>\nMy brain is already on vacation.\u00a0 I didn’t race last weekend.\u00a0 I did some training.\u00a0 I ate food.\u00a0 Life is hectic.\u00a0 There’s my blog.\u00a0 Have a good week!<\/p>\n
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*smirk*<\/em><\/p>\n Ha, gotcha.\u00a0 Even though I don’t have huge big adventure stories, it won’t stop me from blathering about mundane life things.\u00a0 #sorrynotsorry\u00a0 Best advert for a blog post ever – I have nothing amazing to talk about but here’s 1600 words anyway!<\/p>\n I took a day off after Rookie<\/a>, and then attempted to get right back on the horse.\u00a0 It kind of worked.\u00a0 I have to remember that even though I didn’t get a lot of training hours in the last few weeks, I did get two KILLER speed workouts racing at maximum capacity racing back to back weekend.\u00a0 I had to pull back my intentions a little and remember that QUALITY really trumps quantity for me unless I’m moving up to a new distance.\u00a0 And then it still probably does, but I need to push volume for the sake of my confidence.<\/p>\n My two key sessions last week were our team brick and a cycling FTP test.\u00a0 On the brick, I was happy with my bike (best paces and powers yet on the potato chip speed loops), but my run was a little MEH.\u00a0 I was not ready to push it 3 days after racing so I backed off and sat on that comfortably uncomfortable perch in the pain cave and coasted in at 9:30s.\u00a0 Saturday morning, I was super dreading the FTP test and put it off as long as I could… and it wasn’t that bad.\u00a0 That probably was part of the problem – I’m not sure I nailed the effort, since I had some juice at the end of the 20 minute all out segment, and came up with a slightly disappointing number: 172 (2.16 watts\/kg).\u00a0 I thought I *had* to be at 180 at this point.\u00a0 Oh well, metrics are metrics and I’ll try this again monthly – it’s a great workout!<\/p>\n The color coordination is strong with this one. #sockdoping #wattagebrigade<\/em><\/p>\n Last week’s totals:<\/p>\n Total – a little under 5 hours.\u00a0 Less than planned. Oops.\u00a0 This week’s plans are:<\/p>\n Looks like about 6 hours give or take.\u00a0 At some point I’ll need to start ramping up a *little* for Cozumel but for now this volume seems to be working so I’m sticking with it!<\/p>\n Another thing that seems to be working is #projectraceweight.\u00a0 Trendweight<\/a> and I are friends again.<\/p>\n And see, my (interim) goal weight (165) is back in the realm of summer 2018, instead of two years from now!<\/p>\n Now that I’m getting the hang of this, I think I’ve noticed the trend that two weeks of the month I’ll make awesome progress and two weeks (that super fun week where Aunt Flo moves into town and the week after) I make little to none.\u00a0 So, at the very least, I can be less frustrated because it’s a TREND.\u00a0 Even factoring in weeks where I’m stalled out, I seem to be back on track to maybe actually keep this party train going into 160s-town.\u00a0 That’s exciting!\u00a0 And then, since I actually know what I need to do to make it happen, I plan to hop on again next offseason and follow it down a bit more to 150s-ville, for the first time in almost a decade!<\/p>\n For now, I’ll celebrate that I officially have pretty much undone all the damage that crazy high-carb\/calorie program the nutritionist suggested (finally, almost 3 years later).\u00a0 I’ll throw 10 parties for that!<\/p>\n Here’s the last two week’s numbers:<\/p>\n Apr 30-May 6<\/p>\n May 7-13<\/p>\n A few data caveats to fend off any “well, actually…” comments:<\/p>\n Now, I need to make sure and not fuck it up when I go on vacation.\u00a0 I keep saying it (mostly to drill it into my own head when I’m presented with all the food I can eat 24\/7), but honestly, I think the big thing is to control my QUANTITY first and quality second.\u00a0 I’ll live for a week if I don’t get my macros correct but I could really make the scale angry by eating too much, even if it’s mostly healthy.\u00a0 For example – if I’m craving pizza, I’ll get a slice and a salad for lunch.\u00a0 That’s acceptable.\u00a0 What is not acceptable is eating a full breakfast, then lunch, then a slice as a snack (and then a salad because I’m feeling guilty and should eat something healthy too), then dinner.<\/p>\n My only goal is not to gain weight.\u00a0 Wish me luck!<\/p>\n So freaking close to thissssss….<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking of vacation, I swear, it takes forever to get ready for it, and then it’s over in the blink of an eye.\u00a0 But hey, at least I’m almost ready!\u00a0 Sunday was MY DAY to do all the things to get prepared and I did *most* of them including a self-pedicure, tweezing the face caterpillars over my eyes, grabbing some of my things out of storage that had gotten bigger and longer again (yay!).<\/p>\n I also spent a bunch of hours reading the manual and playing with my new camera<\/a>.\u00a0 I was getting really stressed and snippy about it (sorry husband of mine) because I felt intimidated by it.\u00a0 It’s got so many professional type features and I’m typically a point and shoot type gal.\u00a0 However, after a few hours, I think I can work the basic operations and know generally what all the modes and settings mean and I’ll get better with it as I have more gorgeous things to put in front of it.\u00a0 And, if every shot is not the most perfect-est on my first outing, that’s ok, I’ll have more opportunities to get pretty pictures in the future.<\/p>\n So at this point, I still have a few To Dos but I’m feeling less crazy.<\/p>\n Yesterday, I got a massage.\u00a0 I think it was enough to calm the pain in the ass (literally) and the slight niggle moving around my heel\/ankle still, but I’m on watch to see if I need to get into the chiropractor too (I have one real window on Thursday to do it).<\/p>\n I’m debating on a haircut.\u00a0 I actually am not minding it long in my normal human life.\u00a0 This actually didn’t take too terribly long to produce (though longer than I will spend on my looks about 355-ish days of the year which is approximately 30 seconds):<\/p>\n But I know I tend to say that until I get it cut and then wonder how I dealt so long.\u00a0 I also know on vacation my hair is constantly wet and that could get annoying.\u00a0 I may see if I can find a window of time to hit up the Bird’s<\/a> to get a real snip snip or I may just have my husband give it a trim, ignoring the layers I usually get, or I may leave it.\u00a0 My mother reminded me that she travels with scissors (though I certainly don’t trust HER with them as she’ll give me a bowl cut or something like this<\/a>), and my husband reminded me that they have a (rather pricey) salon on board.\u00a0 I’m sure you’re all on the edge of your seat as to what I do so follow along on Instagram for the final verdict, hehe.<\/p>\n I’m sure I need to pick up a few odds and ends as I pack and find things like I don’t have any travel shaving cream, make sure I have enough books downloaded on my Kindle so I don’t run out of reading 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